MBA50.com Premiership 2014 – U.S. b-school ranking of rankings

Matt Symonds, November 12, 2014

MBA50.com has compiled the results of the big five MBA rankings of the last twelve months to produce the MBA50.com Premiership.

How do the top business schools in the U.S. perform when you combine these results? The big news among the top US business schools is that Stanford GSB has displaced Harvard at #1, based on its top ranking in Forbes and US News.

Perhaps even more surprising is the fact Chicago Booth has also climbed above Harvard Business School to #2. Though HBS came top in the FT and shared the top spot in US News, it’s position in BusinessWeek means that when you take an average of the five major media rankings the fall to #3, just ahead of Wharton. These four schools place heads and shoulders above the rest.

Columbia Business School has climbed 3 places to #5, while Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, Yale SOM and UCLA Anderson have all had a good year. Further down the list the University of Washington Foster, Rice University Jones, and Michigan State all moved up 5 places in to the top 30. MIT Sloan, UV Darden, Cornell Johnson, largely because of their performance in BusinessWeek.

2014 Rank

2013 Rank

2012 Rank

2011 Rank

Institution

Financial Times 2014*

BusWeek 2014

Economist 2014*

US News 2014

Forbes 2013

1

2

3

3

Stanford Univ GSB

2

4

7

1

1

2

3

2

2

Univ of Chicago - Booth

6

3

1

4

2

3

1

1

1

Harvard Bus Sch

1

8

4

1

3

4

4

4

4

Univ of Pennsylvania - Wharton

3

2

9

1

4

5

8

6

5

Columbia Bus Sch

4

5

8

8

7

6

5

7

7

Northwestern Univ - Kellogg

9

7

12

6

5

7

6

8

9

Dartmouth College - Tuck

12

15

2

9

6

8

6

5

6

MIT Sloan Sch of Mgmt

5

14

10

5

12

9

10

12

11

Duke Univ - Fuqua

10

1

18

14

8

10

9

9

8

Univ of California at Berkeley - Haas

8

19

5

7

14

11

13

14

13

Univ of Michigan - Ross

13

9

15

11

10

11

16

15

15

Yale Sch of Mgmt

7

6

14

13

18

13

11

10

10

Univ of Virginia - Darden

15

20

3

11

15

14

15

17

16

UCLA - Anderson

14

11

11

16

13

15

11

11

12

Cornell Univ - Johnson

15

13

17

17

9

15

14

13

14

New York Univ - Stern

10

22

6

10

23

17

17

16

17

Carnegie Mellon - Tepper

18

10

16

18

16

18

18

20

20

Univ of North Carolina - Kenan-Flagler

17

12

25

19

11

19

20

18

18

Emory Univ - Goizueta

22

18

13

20

24

20

21

21

21

Indiana Univ - Kelley

24

16

22

21

19

21

19

19

19

Univ of Texas at Austin - McCombs

21

23

23

15

21

22

23

22

22

Georgetown Univ - McDonough

20

24

26

23

33

23

22

27

27

Univ of Notre Dame - Mendoza

-

29

27

23

29

24

29

33

30

Univ of Washington - Foster

31

37

21

25

27

25

30

25

23

Rice University - Jones

19

25

24

33

41

26

24

30

31

Washington Univ - Olin

35

26

28

22

34

27

24

23

25

Vanderbilt Univ - Owen

32

30

20

25

39

28

33

37

32

Michigan State - Broad

27

33

-

35

22

29

26

31

Minnesota - Carlson

28

36

-

33

25

30

28

24

25

Ohio State - Fisher

37

34

19

27

36

31

32

32

36

Univ of Maryland - Smith

26

17

30

41

42

32

34

25

24

Univ of Southern California - Marshall

36

21

36

27

37

33

27

-

-

Georgia Tech - Scheller

38

28

-

27

35

34

37

34

33

Penn State - Smeal

34

40

35

41

26

34

40

36

35

Univ of Rochester - Simon

29

38

34

37

38

36

36

38

38

Purdue Univ - Krannert

30

43

-

40

28

37

35

29

28

Wisconsin Sch of Bus

42

44

32

27

32

38

31

28

29

Texas A&M - Mays

39

42

-

37

30

38

38

-

-

Illinois

23

45

-

35

45

40

44

-

-

UC Irvine

25

31

-

45

61

41

42

39

37

SMU - Cox

-

32

48

55

31

42

-

-

-

Pittsburg - Katz

41

35

43

52

48

43

42

41

-

Boston Univ

40

57

41

45

44

44

41

-

-

Arizona State - Carey

45

67

29

27

60

45

-

-

-

Wake Forest

48

46

37

58

43

46

39

40

39

Univ of Iowa - Tippie

-

75

40

51

20

47

47

-

-

Univ of Georgia - Terry

-

50

42

48

49

48

-

-

-

UC Davis

50

60

39

41

50

49

46

-

-

Univ of Florida - Hough

-

48

45

41

63

50

-

-

-

UC San Diego

44

51

49

60

-

*Ranking figure above is relative to other U.S. b-schools

Click below to find out the 2014 results for other regions of the world:

Only the U.S. business schools are ranked by all five major media rankings. MBA50.com has calculated their overall performance by looking at each ranking position compared to other U.S. schools, and taking an average of those results divided by five.

In the case of the FT and Economist rankings, if a U.S. business school ranked #45 in the overall FT ranking and #40 in the overall Economist ranking, but among U.S. business schools was #23 in the FT and #15 in The Economist, then the relative U.S. regional figure was used for the calculation, and added to those of BusinessWeek, Forbes and US News, before dividing by five to achieve an average score.

The idea of the MBA50.com Premiership is to compare the performance of schools in multiple rankings, and therefore does not include the many good U.S. business schools that appear in fewer than four rankings.

Candidates should remember that this is not scientific approach, and there is no attempt to weight any one ranking greater than the others. As stated before, each ranking uses a different methodology and measures different things with the inherent limitations of each assessment, so doing particularly well in one ranking and less well in another is reflected in the overall average score.

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